Gilad Atzmon (Hebrew: גלעד עצמון‎, born June 9, 1963) is a jazz
musician, author and anti-Zionist activist who was born in Israel and
currently lives in London.

"Anti-Semite is an empty signifier, no one actually can be
an
Anti-Semite and this includes me of course. In short, you are either a
racist - which I am not - or have an ideological disagreement with
Zionism... which I have."

He was born a secular Israeli Jew in Tel Aviv, and trained at the
Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His service in the Israeli military
convinced him Israel had become a militarized state controlled by
religious extremists. In 1994, Atzmon emigrated from Israel to London,
where he studied philosophy. Atzmon is an anti-Zionist who critiques
Jewish identity issues and
supports the Palestinian Right of Return as well as the establishment of
a single state in Israel/Palestine. He is a signatory to the
"Palestinians are the Priority Petition" which states “full and
unconditional support of the Palestinian people is a condition sine qua
non for activists to adopt.

Introduction
by Gilad Atzmon:

Living
in a world dominated by relentless Zionist lobbying, I am far from
being captivated by the current state of Western democracy. I am not
impressed at all by the lethal enthusiasm to democratize the World in
the name of ‘moral interventionism’. I am sickened by the murderous zeal
that led the USA and Britain into a criminal war that left already more
than 1.5 million Iraqi fatalities….

And yet, democracy can also be a genuine universal
call. As it happens, it is the Palestinians who are teaching us what
democracy is all about, what it stands for and why we favoured it in the
first place. Read the Declaration of the Movement for One Democratic
State (ODS) in Palestine. I assume that moral interventionists better
visit the ODS conference in October so
they gather that democracy is actually a humanist call.

Instead of an ethno-centric
exclusive ‘Jews only democracy’ we are talking here about an inclusive
multi ethnic state of its citizens.

Declaration
of the Movement for One Democratic State in Palestine

Vision of the Movement

1. The entire territory of
Palestine between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River is one
country that belongs to all its citizens including all those who live
there and all those who were expelled over the past century and their
descendants. The country shall be constituted as an independent
sovereign State in which all citizens enjoy equal rights and all can
live in freedom and security.

2. The reunified country in Palestine shall be
constituted as a democracy in which all of its adult citizens shall
enjoy equal rights to vote, stand for office and contribute to the
country’s governance. No State law, institution, practices or activities
may discriminate among its citizens on the basis of ethnicity,
religion, language, nationality or gender.

3. The State shall not establish or accord
special privilege to any religion and shall provide for the free
practice of all religions.

4. Public land of the State shall belong to the nation as a whole
and all of its citizens shall have equal access to its use. Private
property of Palestinian refugees shall be restored or compensation
arranged. The natural and economic resources of the country shall
benefit all of its citizens equally.

5. The State shall provide the conditions for free
cultural expression by all of its citizens. It shall ensure that all
languages, arts and culture can flourish and develop freely. All
citizens shall have equal rights to use their own dress, languages and
customs, and to express their cultural heritage free of insults or
discrimination.

6.
Citizens shall have equal access to employment at all levels and in all
sectors of the society. Employment shall not be determined or restricted
by language, race, religion, gender, or nationality. Education and
vocational training shall not be segregated or specialized in any way
that impedes equal access of all citizens to employment and other
opportunities to fulfill their talents and dreams.

7. The State shall uphold
international law and seek the peaceful resolution of conflicts through
negotiation and collective security in accordance with the United
Nations Charter. The people of a unified Palestine shall reject racism
and promote anti-racism throughout the world. The State shall seek to
build a world order in which all countries and peoples enjoy their
social, cultural and political rights as set out in relevant United
Nations covenants. The State shall seek and contribute to the
establishment of a nuclear-free zone in the Middle East that will also
be free of all weapons of mass-destruction.

Not so fast - this is a bogus movement!
Any movement which fails to appreciate the real prime-movers behind Zionism and the State of Israel, is at best a bogus movement. At worst, a controlled opposition contrived to mislead well-intentioned peoples energies on the treadmill of inefficacy with platitudinous pronouncements and manifestos.

... When strident young Jews imbued with the spirit of Zionism make their “Aliyah” to reclaim their lost paradise from those 'untermensch' occupying their Promised Holy Lands, they are not just playing frivolous word games, or indulging in weekend protest marches shouting at the top of their lungs for justice to prevail in the Holy Lands only to go back to their own “bread and circuses” the next day. These young Zionists are actually quite dedicated, willing to sacrifice themselves for the categorical imperative inculcated into them since birth. To their mind, Israel Project is a moral self-defense to simply reclaim what has been theirs for 3000 years – as Shimon Peres remarked on the occasion of the 60th birthday celebration of Israel to George W. Bush: “Welcome to the new Israel: Three thousand years old, and going on sixty”. The underpinnings of the zealotry behind that celebration is examined here. [2]

As seen by these Zionist zealots, mankind throughout the ages had only usurped what was granted to the Jews by their god as a sacred gift – and the modern Zionists are merely reclaiming their own properties from the bad Goy, from the evil Amelekites divinely ordained to perdition at their hands anyway, and none shall stand in the holy way of their jihad. I personally know of no Palestinian in Diaspora who can match that zealotry and commitment to cause of the Zionists. Most Palestinians I know or have met in my life are content with shedding tears in silent remembrance, which of course breaks out in boisterous sloganeering every now and then, but ultimately take their Nakba “whose parallel may only be the one of Sinai when something was revealed to mankind”, as a divine test. “Hasbi-Allahu-wa-nai'mul-wakeel” is a common prayer on many a quivering Muslim lip. But I have seen many Jewish younglings in Zionists garb who have scared me by their Zionist fervor in no less a measure than perhaps any mind-controlled suicide bomber would scare me.

The fact that Zionism also killed off their god after he had made them his 'chosen peoples' and issued them Holy Land grants, is not insignificant, nor a nonsequitur. It is a real philosophy! It forms the real impetus behind the self-empowerment and self-reliance of the Jews in the precise tradition of Talmudic Judaism. This phenomenon has to be comprehended at many complex levels in order to understand the unusual and unmatched power of Zionistan in the world today. A tiny minority's minority which can ride a sole superpower with just the flick of a wick, as well as all the mighty European powers who just 70 to 100 years ago were purportedly so very antagonistic to them, with such brazen impunity! What's the source of such inexplicable power? Is the Jewish State comparable to South Africa? We only see the effects in common – which leads some to believe that the same sort of tactics as were used to end Apartheid in South Africa can also work on the Jewish State. Most fail to recognize that the Jewish State of modernity is unlike any other. It has the protection of an “Iron Wall” which never mind breach, few can even see. It is a singularity, an inexplicability whose parallel does not exist in the non-mythical annals of history.